A succulent completely glabrous perennial herb.Stems creeping and stoloniferous in the lower part, rooting at the lower nodes, and without leaves, becoming erect to 25 cm tall and leafy in the upper part, with thickened nodes.Leaves alternate; petiole (2)3–5(10) mm long, thickened; lamina (1.8)2.2–4.7(5.5) x (0.7)1.0–1.5(2) cm, rhomboid-elliptic, elliptic, sometimes ovate, rarely obovate in lower leaves, somewhat acuminate or subacute to obtuse at the apex, sometimes emarginate, broadly cuneate at the base, ± fleshy, chartaceous when dry, glandular-punctate on both surfaces, ciliate near the apex, 3–5-nerved from the base with midrib conspicuous.Inflorescence spikes usually solitary, terminal or axillary; rhachis 2–4(9) cm long, c. 0.2 cm in diameter, rarely 2-forked; peduncle (0.5)0.7–1.5(2) cm long.Ovary ovoid, stigma subapical; bracts (0.5)0.7 mm in diameter, circular, glandular-punctate.Fruit c. 0.9 mm long, spheric-ovoid, covered with glandular warts, shortly pseudopedicellate, stigma subapical.
